How Police Killed Notorious Gang Leader, Devil

CHUKA UBAH

Police operatives from the Bori Police Station led by the DPO, at about 2016hrs, in a coordinated operation trailed one Linus Lebari ‘m’ 35, a.k.a. ‘Bobby’ but popularly called “Devil” from Tekon Sogho in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, to their hideout in a forest at Okwale in the boundary between Rivers and Abia States.

According to DSP Nnamdi Omoni, Rivers Police Public Relations Officer, the hoodlums, on noticing irregular movements around their camp, started shooting randomly but in a return of fire from the Police, one of them was fatally wounded. He was later identified to be Linus Lebari from Tekon Sogho, the leader of the kidnapping gang responsible for all the attacks on the Ogoni axis of the East/West Road and whose gang has killed over 30 people in the two LGAs of Khana and Gokana, after collecting ransom.

In the wake of the operation, two Police officers sustained gunshot wounds and are currently responding to treatment while one locally made pistol and some cartridges were recovered.

Efforts are on to arrest other gang members who fled with gunshot wounds.

The Commissioner of Police, CP Mustapha Dandaura, is again assuring the public that the onslaught against arms banditry in the State is raging and will not cease until all criminal elements in the State are history, while appealing for cooperation, by sharing credible information that will lead to the arrest of these criminals through the following security numbers: 08032003514, 08028915462.